Syphilis has identified a special case where this average does not exist. tybalt89 proposed a solution which avoids the error by bypassing the calculation. With this correction, your existing code would output a numeric zero. This may be a problem for your users because they could not tell the difference between an average of zero and no average. I recommend that you ask them what they would prefer. Other possible choices include: Except for the first, you could use 
$baverage =  $baverage1 ? $rec{'BatterRuns'} / $baverage1 : '*****';

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Bill

In reply to Re: Null values in Perl Calculation by BillKSmith
in thread Null values in Perl Calculation by PaulB-Liverpool

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